Last updated: June 10, 2019
Place
Louisiana: A.P. Tureaud House
Donna Fricker, A.P. Tureaud House East, 2006
Quick Facts
Location:
3121 Pauger St. New Orleans, LA
Significance:
Home of prominent civil rights attorney A.P. Tureaud
Designation:
National Register of Historic Places; African American Civil Rights Network
OPEN TO PUBLIC:
No
Alexander Pierre ‘A.P.’ Tureaud, Sr. (1899-1972) was the leading attorney for the New Orleans chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s (NAACP) Legal Defense and Education Fund during the height of the modern African American Civil Rights movement. Born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, Tureaud left to attend law school at Howard University in Washington, D.C. He graduated in 1925, and went back to Louisiana where he was admitted to the Louisiana Bar in 1927. Eight years later he was admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, a major feat in its own right.
Tureaud is most well-known for his handling of education and civil rights court cases. With the help of Thurgood Marshall and Robert Carter, the NAACP’s most prominent legal figures at the time, Tureaud filed a lawsuit which effectively ended segregation in New Orleans’s public school system. He also served as legal counsel in his own right. From 1950-1953, while he was president of the New Orleans' chapter of the NAACP, Tureaud filed four lawsuits against Louisiana State University challenging segregationist policies at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, including the university's law and medical schools respectively. Tureaud prevailed in all four cases, effectively integrating the state's public university sytem, in addition to cases which helped integrate Louisiana’s buses, parks, buildings, and other public accommodations.
As legal counsel for the NAACP for more than three decades, A.P. Tureaud transformed the state of Louisiana in his pursuit for equal protection for the state’s African American community, and his home is a testament to his courage and his dedication to the pursuit of justice.
The A.P. Tureaud House was added to the African American Civil Rights Network in October 2018.
Tureaud is most well-known for his handling of education and civil rights court cases. With the help of Thurgood Marshall and Robert Carter, the NAACP’s most prominent legal figures at the time, Tureaud filed a lawsuit which effectively ended segregation in New Orleans’s public school system. He also served as legal counsel in his own right. From 1950-1953, while he was president of the New Orleans' chapter of the NAACP, Tureaud filed four lawsuits against Louisiana State University challenging segregationist policies at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, including the university's law and medical schools respectively. Tureaud prevailed in all four cases, effectively integrating the state's public university sytem, in addition to cases which helped integrate Louisiana’s buses, parks, buildings, and other public accommodations.
As legal counsel for the NAACP for more than three decades, A.P. Tureaud transformed the state of Louisiana in his pursuit for equal protection for the state’s African American community, and his home is a testament to his courage and his dedication to the pursuit of justice.
The A.P. Tureaud House was added to the African American Civil Rights Network in October 2018.